Device for cleaning clothes.



PATBNTED DEC. 11, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY5, 1905.

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UNITED srA rps PATENT OFFICE.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING CLOTHES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed May 5, 1905- $6Tia1N0- 531997- To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES P. UPTON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Portland, county of Cumberland, State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Cleaning Clothes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for cleaning dry mud and other hardened substances from clothing; and the object of the invention is to produce a device by which spots of hardened material which have become embedded in the body of the cloth may be removed without scratching or injuring the cloth.

According to my invention I make use of a convex disk or body of woven-wire cloth, and this is preferably secured to the end of the handle of the clothes-brush, so that it is always ready to be used in connection with the brush. The device may be attached to a clothes-brush or to ahandle of any kind, or it may be supported in a ferrule or any other form of casing, it being only essential that the convex surface of the wire-cloth shall project beyond the casing, so that it may be rubbed against the cloth. Such a device loosens the mud or other hard material from the body of the fabric without in the least abrading or injuring the fabric in any way. The material passes readily through the spaces of the wire-cloth and quickly disappears from the fabric.

I illustrate my invention by means of the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a whisk-broom with the end of the handle in section. Fig. 2 is an end view looking down on said handle, and Fig. 3 is a side view of a ferrule attached to a suitable handle 6 and provided with the wire-cloth disk.

In the drawings, d represents the broom, a the handle, and cis the convex disk of Wirescreen cloth of suitable mesh placed on the end of the handle a and secured in placed by the ferrule b, which is slipped on over the end of the handle. The ferrule has an inwardprojecting flange at its upper end, by which the edges of the disk are held in place. It is evident that the ferrule with the disk soldered to it or otherwise secured to it may be used as a cleaning device without being connected with the clothes-brush, or the ferrule may be secured on the end of a suitable handle formed on purpose to contain it, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

I claim In an attachment for brush handles, a cleaning device of Wire-mesh material, means for securing the same to the end of said handle including a ferrule arranged to slidably engage over the side wall of the handle and having a flanged portion extending inwardly at substantially right angles to the body portion and engaging over the edge of said cleaning device to hold the same in contact with the end of the handle, the cleaning device being otherwise unattached, the said flange affording a central opening, and said cleaning device having a convex portion bulging outwardly from said engaged portion and through said central opening to a point be yond said flange.

Signed at Portland this 25th day of April, 1905.

CHARLES P. UPTON. Witnesses:

S. W. BATES, L. M. GODFREY. 

